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2007-09-13

Bottle makes dirty water drinkable

The way fresh water is supplied to disaster-hit regions could be revolutionised after an Ipswich-based businessman invented a £190 bottle that makes foul-smelling water drinkable in seconds.

Michael Pritchard hopes that the bottle could be a life-saver for refugees in disaster regions where access to clean drinking water is vital.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=3R3S1NAZ1X2NVQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2007/09/12/nwater112.xml

Mirror particles form new matter

Fragile particles rarely seen in our Universe have been merged with ordinary electrons to make a new form of matter.

Di-positronium, as the new molecule is known, was predicted to exist in 1946 but has remained elusive to science.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6991030.stm

rst2a - reStructuredText to Anything

Style your work in a way that flows naturally from the organization of your ideas. You've composed naturally without the distraction of styling, now let the styling follow naturally from your composition.

http://rst2a.com/

Useful Items You Never Knew You Could Print Out

http://www.friedbeef.com/2007/08/04/useful-items-you-never-knew-you-could-print-out-the-ultimate-guide/

Complete Your First Book with these 9 Simple Writing Habits

Your first book isn't going to happen by itself. If writing a novel or non-fiction book is something you've dreamed of, the only way to make that dream a reality is by putting it into action -- day by day.


And the best way to do that is to develop some simple habits that will make the dream a reality, one step at a time.

http://www.dumblittleman.com/2007/09/complete-your-first-book-with-these-9.html

Top 10 Wikipedia Tricks

Without a doubt, Wikipedia is one of the most useful and amazing sources of information on the internet—but chances are you aren't using it to its full potential. Thanks to its freely available content base, lots of Wikipedia-related projects have sprung up that offer easy access to information every which way you need it. Whether you want to do a quick lookup on your mobile phone to settle a debate at the bar, mind map related articles, integrate Wikipedia lookups into your media player and instant messenger or simply need better and quicker search tools, check out our list of top 10 Wikipedia tricks.

http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-top-10/top-10-wikipedia-tricks-298696.php

'Super-scope' to see hidden texts

Intense light beams will enable scientists to uncover the text in scrolls and books without having to open - and potentially damage - them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6991893.stm


Countries' Comments on MS OOXML - How You Can Help

I think I see a way we could be really helpful to the ISO folks having to sort through all the 10,000 comments the various countries filed with their votes on MS OOXML.

The comments have been officially published, although as .doc files, sigh. Here's the zip file to download). But I thought I'd make them available to you as HTML also, which is how the members got them to make sure everyone has access and because of my idea. I gather someone had to process all the comments to put them into doc format, so one help would be to make sure nothing was overlooked. Other tasks might be to see that duplicates are noted, that they are sorted into various categories, like tech or not, and then subcategorized, etc. I think that might prove helpful too in making sure everything is addressed.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070910110639612

Prométhée, the « ready to use » open source VLE






Prométhée is a project placed under GNU/GPL license which aims to provide a "ready to use" pedagogic and administrative intranet-extranet to schools.


http://promethee.eu.org/index.php

Innovation Happens Elsewhere - Open Source as Business Strategy

This is an online version of our open source book based on the version published by Morgan Kaufmann in April 2005. We post it online in the hopes that people will find it useful. Feel free to link to it.

http://dreamsongs.com/IHE/